NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Does the Processing Advantage of Formulaic Language Persist in Its Nonadjacent Forms? Evidence from Chinese Collocation Processing in Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shang Jiang; Anna Siyanova-Chanturia – First Language, 2024
Recent studies have accumulated to suggest that children, akin to adults, exhibit a processing advantage for formulaic language (e.g. "save energy") over novel language (e.g. "sell energy"), as well as sensitivity to phrase frequencies. The majority of these studies are based on formulaic sequences in their canonical form. In…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Child Language
When Linguistic Elements Contribute to Conceptual Dynamics: The Case of Chinese Students' Pre-Instructional Ideas about the Earth
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tang, Xiaowei; Yang, Liu; Levin, Daniel M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this study, we explore how cross-linguistic differences can contribute to children's scientific thinking. We compared first and third grade Chinese students' pre-instructional ideas of the earth expressed in clinical interviews with that of their English-speaking and Greek-speaking counterparts (as recorded in the literature). Inspired by a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Education, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
A Thought on Reviewing Ways in Primary School
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
He, Xiaojun – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper will focus on the effective review of English in the third grade of primary school. In the first part, the author introduces the importance of improving the effective review of English in the third grade of primary school. Analyzing from the aspects of theories, teachers have to get a good knowledge of language theories and analyze it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers
"Laying Bare of Questions Which Have Been Hidden by Answers": The English Language Arts Standards of the Common Core, K-5
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Gangi, Jane M.; Reilly, Mary Ann – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2013
The authors question the answer the national Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) claims. The questions center on the validity of the new standardized tests based on the CCSS and teachers' evaluations being tied to student test scores on flawed tests. The proposed tests on the CCSS will position children as deficient, and will not recognize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Comparative Education
Silent Sitting: A Cross-Curricular Tool to Promote Resilience
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Taplin, Margaret – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2011
Even though most teachers believe that it is important to help students to develop personal attributes such as resilience so they can cope with the challenges and changes of contemporary society, teachers and students are too often caught up with curriculum and exam pressures to be able to do very much about the development of personal values.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values Education, Resilience (Psychology), Models
Knowing and Teaching Fractions: A Cross-Cultural Study of American and Chinese Mathematics Teachers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zhou, Zheng; Peverly, Stephen T.; Xin, Tao – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
Guided by Shulman, 1986 and Shulman, 1987 tripartate model of teacher expertise [subject matter knowledge (SMK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and general pedagogical knowledge (GPK)], the present study examined 162 U.S. and Chinese 3rd grade mathematics teachers' expertise in teaching fractions. Results show that U.S. teachers lag…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics)